Mar. 3, 2013
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by Andrea Mandell, USA TODAY

by Andrea Mandell, USA TODAY

It has almost been a week since the Oscars telecast, and Jamie Lee Curtis' blood is still boiling.

The accomplished actress recently published an essay on the Huffington Post noting that she has tried to keep her reaction private in the days after the show. But, she says, the rave reviews were getting to her.

"I knew who Seth MacFarlane was," Curtis acknowledges in a post titled "And the Oscar Goes to ... Hell." "My teenage son is a big fan. I knew what to expect. I have been the butt of his humor. I have survived his cruel, cheap jokes."

Nevertheless, "I was offended last week. As an academy member, as the child of former academy members and as a woman, I expected more from the best that the movie business has to offer. The Oscars are about honoring art and artists. It is not supposed to be a cheesy vaudeville show."

Want to know what irked her the most? You guessed it: MacFarlane's controversial "boob song," which publications from the New Yorker to the Los Angeles Times have slammed as misogynistic. (But he had at least one fan: Backstage after her best-actress win, Jennifer Lawrence said she loved it.)

"The 'boob' song, as it will be known in perpetuity, may go down as the highest-rated Oscar number in history, but at what cost?" Curtis asks. "I'm sure public executions would get big ratings too, but is that what the Oscars are truly about? Ratings? I am an actress who has bared her breasts in films to satisfy the requirement of the role I was asked to do -- lucky to do, for in my case, those films were significant in my career. I didn't like doing it. I didn't ask if I could do them topless. I did what was asked of me for the part I was playing. Mostly asked by men."

No direct response from MacFarlane via Twitter yet, but he did make a reference the media storm on Feb. 28.

"Interesting article about the press' anger over the Boobs song," he tweeted, and then linked to a gallery published by the same outlet that would later publish Curtis' outrage. The Huffington Post gallery in question is titled "Celebrity Sideboob: The Year In Sideboob."